Chapter Summaries

Xiao Miao discovered Strange Metal Mystic Water Origin inside the pill furnace and began refining it as a Foundation Establishment material under Chu Ke’s guidance. Elsewhere, Wei Jing and his fellow monks began a ritual to revive the Future Buddha.

• Xiao Miao recovered some spiritual power in the pill furnace, then sensed that someone had claimed the strange flame and was heading toward the secret realm’s exit.
• Chu Ke pointed out a damaged section of the furnace lining, where Xiao Miao found the blue Strange Metal Mystic Water Origin.
• Chu Ke explained that the Strange Metal could serve as a Foundation Establishment material and taught Xiao Miao how to refine it.
• Chu Ke left Xiao Miao to practice and flew into the secret realm to look for entertainment.
• In the Human Hall, Wei Jing told the monks that his Pure Eye had located the seal, and they began chanting Future Sect scriptures to welcome the revival of the Future Buddha.

Wei Jing and the Future Sect monks unlocked the sealed Azure Lotus in the secret realm, awakening the Future Buddha’s shell. As Wei Jing tried to put the cracked shell into a Storage Ring, it broke apart and revealed a new being that demanded they bow.

• Wei Jing and the Future Sect monks used their scriptures and a golden formation to release the Azure Lotus sealed beneath the secret realm.
• The Azure Lotus shook the secret realm before an azure light swept through it and the area fell silent.
• A cracked figure appeared atop the lotus, and its Buddhist chants left most monks dazed; only Wei Jing and the little novice monk retained their senses.
• Wei Jing prepared to store the Future Buddha’s shell in a Storage Ring, but its cracks widened and it shattered.
• A new being emerged from the broken shell and asked, “Beholding the future, why do you not bow?”

Chu Ke appeared as the Future Buddha, named the novice monk Mi Le, and sent Wei Jing to find the Buddha Daughter. Meanwhile, Chu Ke helped Xiao Miao extract Strange Metal and arranged for him to claim a Holy Son identity in the Future Sect under the name Mi Ku.

• Wei Jing answered the Future Buddha’s test by explaining that the future revealed the emptiness of all dharmas, and Chu Ke accepted his reply.
• Chu Ke recognized the novice monk’s affinity, named him Mi Le, and pointed Wei Jing toward the Pill Refining Pavilion to find the Buddha Daughter.
• Xiao Miao successfully extracted Strange Metal from the pill furnace, and Chu Ke urged him to refine it immediately.
• Chu Ke told Xiao Miao he had secured him a Holy Son identity in the Future Sect and instructed him to say a blue-haired being had named him Mi Ku in a dream.

Xiao Miao refined the Strange Metal Mystic Water Origin and reached early Foundation Establishment, but discovered that the side effect had transformed his appearance into that of a beautiful young woman. After Chu Ke revealed how Xiao Miao had misunderstood the Magical Girl Divine Cultivation Technique, he offered him a way to be saved.

• Xiao Miao absorbed the Mystic Water Origin and fell asleep as it changed his body.
• Xiao Miao woke with a higher voice and a more delicate, feminine appearance, while Chu Ke admitted the side effect was more severe than he had let on.
• Chu Ke played a recording reminding Xiao Miao he could have changed Cultivation Techniques before Foundation Establishment, and Xiao Miao recognized that he had chosen to continue.
• Chu Ke explained that Xiao Miao had misread the Magical Girl Divine Cultivation Technique as the Mystic Law Devil Divine Cultivation Technique.
• Chu Ke handed Xiao Miao the Great Dragon Weaponization manual, calling it the only Cultivation Technique that could save him.

Xiao Miao studied Great Dragon Weaponization and removed his Guan Yu, turning it into a spear to protect it from the Mystic Law Devil’s refinement. He began learning the White Elephant Spear Technique, but an intruder with strange flame fluctuations broke into the Pill Refining Pavilion.

• Xiao Miao read both volumes of Great Dragon Weaponization and realized he could remove his Guan Yu before the Mystic Law Devil refined it, then restore it afterward.
• Xiao Miao used the technique to turn his Guan Yu into a red-tasseled spear, while Chu Ke teased him about the transformation.
• Chu Ke gave Xiao Miao the low-grade Heaven-tier White Elephant Spear Technique, and Xiao Miao began studying its single powerful move.
• An uninvited guest entered the Pill Refining Pavilion, and Xiao Miao stopped when he sensed strange flame fluctuations from the visitor.

Xiao Miao ambushed Hu Kai as he entered the alchemy room, but discovered that Hu Kai could still fight despite taking a spear through the chest. Chu Ke told Xiao Miao to use Great Dragon Weaponization on Hu Kai.

• Xiao Miao prepared for an unknown intruder and charged out of the pill furnace with his spear.
• Hu Kai entered the alchemy room while healing from his battle with Yu Yifan and recognized that someone was hiding nearby.
• Hu Kai was distracted by Xiao Miao’s appearance, allowing Xiao Miao to pierce his chest, though Hu Kai wounded Xiao Miao in return.
• Xiao Miao realized Hu Kai’s life-saving token had not activated and feared that Hu Kai still had considerable combat strength.
• Chu Ke told Xiao Miao to use Great Dragon Weaponization on Hu Kai.

Hu Kai survived Xiao Miao's attack, but Xiao Miao used a technique that transformed Hu Kai into a woman and turned his Lower House into a sword. Hu Kai demanded to know how to change back, and Xiao Miao threatened to destroy the sword if Hu Kai attacked him.

• Hu Kai sealed his injuries and prepared to fight Xiao Miao, but his body’s Lower House objected to harming her.
• Xiao Miao pulled Hu Kai’s Lower House out and refined it into a Shangfang Sword, which then healed and transformed Hu Kai into a woman.
• Xiao Miao called the technique the Immortal Killing Move: Great Dragon Weaponization, and Hu Kai grabbed him in outrage.
• Hu Kai broke down over his new body, then demanded that Xiao Miao turn him back.
• Xiao Miao said there would be a price, and Hu Kai threatened him until Xiao Miao raised the sword and threatened to destroy it.

Xiao Miao discovered that he could not change back after transforming Guan Yu into a magic artifact, and learned that the release technique had a seven-day cooldown. With the secret realm closing soon and Yu Yifan likely to see through his disguise, Xiao Miao and Hu Kai began considering another use for the transformation technique.

• Hu Kai tried to trick Xiao Miao into giving back Oregano, but Xiao Miao threatened to destroy the artifact if Hu Kai made a move.
• Xiao Miao tried twice to change Guan Yu back, but the spear remained a magic artifact.
• Chu Ke explained that the release technique only worked seven days after the removal technique, leaving Xiao Miao and Hu Kai in their current state for a week.
• Hu Kai warned Xiao Miao that the secret realm would close within three hours and that Yu Yifan could see through his disguise.
• Hu Kai wondered if Xiao Miao could use the hand seal again, and Xiao Miao realized what he was suggesting.

Xiao Miao learned how Hu Kai’s humiliating duel with Yu Yifan began and why the two men became enemies. Hu Kai proposed using his transformed appearance to lure Yu Yifan into a trap, while Yu Yifan detected traces of intruders and set off after them.

• Hu Kai explained that his feud with Yu Yifan began during the Mountain-Water Competition, when a bathroom mishap left his finger technique smeared across Yu Yifan’s face.
• Xiao Miao told Hu Kai a version of her own history with Yu Yifan, and Hu Kai dismissed the rumor that Yu Yifan had pursued someone else’s fiancée.
• Xiao Miao hesitated over their plan, but Hu Kai reassured her and proposed using his ample chest to exploit Yu Yifan’s supposed preference for big breasts.
• Yu Yifan used a Sword Eye to detect signs of someone’s presence and hurried after the lingering aura.
• Yu Yifan turned back to pry up a floor tile and throw it at a beam, jolting the sleeping Huang Yingying awake.

Yu Yifan followed Hu Kai’s trail into the bamboo grove, where he found the elusive Earth Essence Bamboo and two women. He was lured close by the fox-like woman, who revealed herself as Hu Kai and struck him, while Xiao Miao used a terrifying suction force on him.

• Yu Yifan tracked the aura of Hu Kai’s follower through the bamboo grove while searching for Hu Kai and the strange flame.
• Yu Yifan stumbled upon the Earth Essence Bamboo, but it burrowed into the earth and fled when he tried to pursue it.
• Yu Yifan chose to approach the women after overhearing their conversation, and an old man outside the secret realm sensed that Yu Yifan had failed to escape his tribulation.
• Yu Yifan introduced himself to the blue-green-haired woman and the alluring fox-like woman, who flattered him and drew him closer.
• The alluring woman revealed herself as Hu Kai and struck Yu Yifan with Spirit Rhinoceros Finger, while Xiao Miao used a terrifying suction force on his Guan Yu.

Xiao Miao explained that her spell had transformed Yu Yifan and Hu Kai into women and their second brothers into magic artifacts, which could not be reversed for at least seven days. She revealed Yu Yifan’s Judge’s Brush could temporarily grow larger, then asked the two sect members to form an alliance and stay with her after leaving the secret realm.

• Xiao Miao told Yu Yifan that her transformation spell would keep her female for at least seven days, and Yu Yifan warned her not to lie.
• Yu Yifan recalled that Hu Kai’s attack had been a feint that let Xiao Miao’s spell strike her.
• Xiao Miao showed Hu Kai that Yu Yifan’s Judge’s Brush could grow larger when infused with spiritual energy, though the effect had a time limit.
• Xiao Miao proposed that Yu Yifan and Hu Kai join her in a temporary alliance and remain with her for six more days after leaving the secret realm.
• Yu Yifan and Hu Kai worried that the deadline would conflict with their need to return to their respective sects.

Xiao Miao refused Yu Yifan and Hu Kai’s offers to join their sects, then was unexpectedly transported with them to a hidden Small Grotto-Heaven. There, they encountered the soul of Daoist Jianyang, who had expected his inheritance to attract talented men but found three women instead.

• Yu Yifan and Hu Kai offered Xiao Miao sect positions and cultivation resources, but he refused and warned Yu Yifan that the artifacts would self-destruct if he lost consciousness or stopped channeling spiritual energy.
• Yu Yifan gave Xiao Miao a strand of Sword Qi, and the three prepared to leave the secret realm.
• A group of Future Sect monks tracked their Buddhist maiden to a bamboo forest, but a streak of light arrived and transported the three figures there away.
• Xiao Miao, Yu Yifan, and Hu Kai awoke in a tomb-like Small Grotto-Heaven and crossed a floating stone bridge toward a coffin after Chu Ke sensed a conscious soul within it.
• Daoist Jianyang rose from the coffin, realized his inheritance had attracted three women instead of talented men, and started to lie back down before Xiao Miao stopped him.

Xiao Miao and her companions learned that Great Sun Cycle strengthened their spiritual roots, allowing them to begin cultivating it and escape the secret realm. Meanwhile, Chu Ke worked on developing the Second Tree of Power and received an unexpected call from Zhao Dali about some fruit.

• Great Sun Venerable explained that his secret art, Great Sun Cycle, could only be learned by men, and that the three women seemed unable to escape the secret realm.
• Xiao Miao revealed that the three of them had removed their physical spiritual roots and presented their severed spiritual-root artifacts, which Great Sun Venerable accepted as sufficient for learning the art.
• Great Sun Venerable transmitted Great Sun Cycle, and Chu Ke examined it and explained that it strengthened spiritual roots and could help Xiao Miao withstand Mystic Law Devil's side effects.
• Xiao Miao and the other two began cultivating Great Sun Cycle, causing their spiritual-root artifacts to grow.
• Chu Ke returned to researching the Second Tree of Power and started crafting a server from a Cosmic Oddity.
• Zhao Dali called Chu Ke and said she had planted fruit for him.

Chu Ke discussed Zhao Dali’s experimental Magical Girl fruit-growing project, while Xiao Miao, Hu Kai, and Yu Yifan activated the Great Sun Cycle trial and were forced to spin against a stone wall. As the secret realm neared its closure, the three emerged from the rift as powerful spinning tops.

• Zhao Dali told Chu Ke that he had crossbred fruit seeds with idealism and Magical Girl elements, and Chu Ke agreed to inspect the project at harvest time.
• Xiao Miao confirmed she could make her halberd-spear hover, then she, Hu Kai, and Yu Yifan refined their artifacts and attached them to the stone-wall mechanism.
• Great Sun Venerable opened three trial gates and warned them they had to spin fast enough without being thrown off to escape.
• The trial’s twisting force lifted Xiao Miao, Hu Kai, and Yu Yifan into a rapid spin, and Yu Yifan enlarged his Judge's Brush to keep it secured.
• As the Dao Alliance counted the missing cultivators outside the secret realm, the three spinning artifacts shot out of the rift with thunderous force.

After escaping the inheritance grotto-heaven, Xiao Miao discovered that the spinning force around him and his companions could gather spiritual energy and unleash power comparable to a Golden Core strike. He learned to control their trajectory with Great Dragon Weaponization, smashed through the secret realm’s exit, and sent the three of them hurtling beyond the horizon.

• Xiao Miao, Yu Yifan, and Hu Kai were flung out of the inheritance grotto-heaven as spinning, hurricane-like vortices, suffering severe physical strain and losing control of their spiritual energy.
• Xiao Miao forced his body unconscious and used his Spiritual Sense to discover that their rotation condensed surrounding spiritual energy into a powerful vortex.
• The three crashed through a mountain without suffering major injuries, and Xiao Miao realized their spinning attack rivaled a Golden Core strike.
• Xiao Miao activated Great Dragon Weaponization and learned to steer the three spinning tops by controlling their spiritual-root treasures.
• Xiao Miao guided the three into a coordinated Golden Spin that shattered the secret realm fissure and sent them speeding beyond the horizon.
• The Dao Alliance cultivator guarding the exit briefly saw the three spinning figures before they vanished and wondered if his eyes had deceived him.

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• The narrator experienced severe abdominal pain.
• The narrator said they were about to die.
• The narrator took a day off.

After escaping the secret realm, Xiao Miao, Hu Kai, and Yu Yifan discovered that a spatial rift had carried them beyond Southern Continent. Unable to contact home directly, they planned to find a Post Station and arrange a return, while Xiao Miao announced that he had an idea.

• Xiao Miao, Hu Kai, and Yu Yifan landed in a forest after leaving the secret realm and recovered from the violent spinning.
• Yu Yifan used a Spirit Map, which showed that they were outside Southern Continent.
• The three concluded that the Great Sun Cycle had carried them through another spatial rift during their escape.
• Yu Yifan and Hu Kai explained that they could not contact Southern Continent directly but could use a Post Station to send word and buy Cross Continent tickets.
• Xiao Miao said he had an idea after the group realized they could not fly out of the forest.

Xiao Miao, Yu Yifan, and Hu Kai used their artifacts and Great Sun Cycle to travel through the air toward distant smoke. While resting, Xiao Miao activated Mystic Water Origin Body and discovered that it let him use Great Dragon Weaponization on a distant tree, which he transformed into a vine spear.

• Xiao Miao used his control over the three men's artifacts and Great Sun Cycle to carry them through the air toward signs of human habitation.
• Yu Yifan and Hu Kai spotted smoke in the distance, and Xiao Miao redirected their flight toward it.
• While the others practiced their techniques, Xiao Miao studied the energy from Mystic Water Origin in his Dantian and activated Mystic Water Origin Body.
• Xiao Miao discovered that Mystic Water Body granted a thirty-foot domain with enhanced spells, unavoidable techniques, energy harmonization, and control over metal.
• Xiao Miao tested the domain with Pillar Pushing Hand, then used Great Dragon Weaponization to turn a distant tree into a vine spear.

Xiao Miao explored the limits of Great Dragon Weaponization and considered turning its ability to refine reproductive organs into a business. After the group found a village, they learned that Big Tree City lay nearby and headed there, hoping to find a way to travel across the continent.

• Xiao Miao discovered that Great Dragon Weaponization could refine the reproductive organs of trees and flowers, producing treasures whose strength depended on their source.
• Xiao Miao considered cultivating harmful weeds for treasure-making and selling the results, and joked about capturing enemies for wholesale.
• Xiao Miao, Yu Yifan, and Hu Kai reached a village and asked a middle-aged man for directions to Big Tree City.
• The middle-aged man told Yu Yifan that most of the village's young men had gone to Big Tree City to try for a Princess's hand in marriage.
• Yu Yifan put a Qi Condensation Powder pill in the village well as payment, then left with Xiao Miao and Hu Kai for Big Tree City.

Xiao Miao, Yu Yifan, and Hu Kai entered Big Tree City with a Dao Alliance token and learned that the city’s unusual spiritual energy came from glowing vines above its giant tree. While Xiao Miao explored, he heard that a martial contest was being held to recruit a husband for the Princess and realized the woman who had just taken the stage was likely someone he knew.

• Hu Kai used a Dao Alliance token to get the trio past Big Tree City’s strict gate inspections.
• Yu Yifan recognized that the city’s body-tempering spiritual energy indicated they were in Western Continent, and Hu Kai suspected the glowing vines produced it.
• The trio booked rooms at an inn and planned to ask Ten Thousand Miles Fast about passage to Southern Continent the next morning.
• Xiao Miao went out to explore and learned that the city lord and Princess were holding a martial contest to recruit a husband.
• Xiao Miao heard that a woman had knocked the Wang Family’s Second Young Master off the platform with one finger and guessed who she was.